Appleton - Samuel, son of Samuel, Ipswich, baptized at Little Wallingford 1624, brought in 1635 by his family, married Hannah, daughter of William Paine of
Ipswich --- He was a man of the highest reputation in civilian and military service. Representative in 1668 and often after to 1681, when he was made an Assistant by an annual election, continued in that rank until the time of the overthrow of the charter government 1686. In 1675, he had command of all the Mass. forces on the Conn. River, and late in the season when succeeded by Major Savage in that quarter, was transferred to the expedition against Narraganset for the bloody and decisive action of 19 December. Resolute in the support of the liberties of the people of unlawful taxation in 1687, he was imprisoned by Andros and hardly released. See Hutchinson I page 365. In the new chart of William and Mary 1691, he was made one of the Council, though by the population vote left out the following year. He died 15 May 1696 Savage I
Samuel Appleton, the father of Major Samuel Appleton, was descended from the ancient family of Appulton of Waldingfield, Suffolk, England. He was the son of Thomas, and was born at Little Waldingfield in 1586; married Judith Everand, by whom he had six children born in England. John born 1622; Samuel born 1624, Sarah born 1629; Mary; Judith and Martha. With his family he came to New England in 1635 and settled at Ipswich, where he was admitted freeman, May 25, 1636. He was chosen deputy to the General Court, May 17th, 1637, and was prominent in the affairs if his town thereafter, and died at Rowley in June, 1670. The eldest son John became an influential man in the colony. Was successively lieutenant, captain, and major, and deputy to the General Court for fifteen years between 1656 and 1678, and was honorably prominent in opposition to the Andros government. He married Priscilla Glover, by whom he had a large family, and died in 1699. Of the daughters above mentioned, Judith married Samuel Rogers, son of Rev. Nathaniel, of Ipswich. Martha married Richard Jacob, of Ipswich. Sarah married Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Rowley, 1651.
Major Samuel Appleton was born at Waldingfield and came with his father to Ipswich at the age of eleven years. His first wife was Hannah Paine, of Ipswich, by whom he had Hannah, Judith and Samuel. By his second wife, Mary Oliver (at marriage, Dec. 8, 1656, aged sixteen), he had John, Major Isaac, Oliver anf Joanna. He was chosen deputy to the General Court in 1668, under the title Lieut.; also in 1669 to 1671, in company with his brother Capt. John, and again by himself in 1673 and 1675.
In early September Captain Appleton was given command of a foot company totaling 100 men. He marched to Hadley, Mass. arriving around September 6th.On October 5, 1675 the Indians attacked Springfield destroying about 30 houses and other property including Major Pynchon's, the army commander, mills and several of his houses and barns. After the destruction of his property and not feeling that he could properly maintain command, Major Pynchon asked to resign his post. This request was granted and on October 12th and Captain Appleton assumed command of all the forces in the Connecticut River area. He held this command until he was ordered home with his men on November 24. When the troops mustered on Dedham Plain on December 9, 1675 for the start of the Naragansett campaign, Major Samuel Appleton was given command of the Massachusetts regiment while also commanding the First Foot Troop.
Soon after the battle of Narragansett Major Appleton retired from his protracted and arduous service from the field. On the 19th of October, 1676, the Court appointed him to command an expedition to Pascataqua; but he probably declined, as the order was rescinded on October 23rd. He was reelected deputy in 1676, and subsequently, except 1678, until 1681, when he was chosen Assistant, and remained in that office till the coming in of the Andros government in 1686. He was proscribed by Sir Edmund's officer, Randolph, as one of the "factious." He was arrested on the general complaint of being "evil disposed and seditious," October 19th 1687, and refusing to submit and give bonds for his good behavior, was committed to Boston jail, where he kept many months till his age and increasing infirmities forced a reluctant submission, and he was set at liberty, March 7, 1688. In a new charter of William and Mary, in 1691, he was made one of the Council. He died May 15, 1696.
Appleton - Samuel - son of Thomas of Littleton Wallingford, County Suffolk, born 1586, came 1635 with his family, having rejected earlier settlements, as is well infered from the expression in a letter of our neighbor Gov. Winthrop 14 Aug. 1630, soon after his arrival here, to his son John in England, that Mr Appleton can have no cows, because more than half of their stock died on the passage. He was sworn freeman 25 May 1636 and chosen Representive the following year. He served in that capacity no other year. He died in Rowley 1670
Savage I page 61
Sarnual Appleton was a man of the highest repute in civilian service. Rep in 1668, and often after until 1681 when he was made an Assist, and annually continued in that rank until the time of the overflow of the Charter Govt 1686. In 1685, he had command of all Mass. forces on the Conn. River and late in the season, when succeeded by Major Savage in that quarter was transferred to the expedition against the Narraganset for the bloody and decisive action of Dec 19th. Resolute in the support of liberty of the people against their unlawful taxation in 1687, he was imprisoned by Andros and hardly released ( Hutch. 1365 ) In the new chart of William and Mary, 1691 he was made one ofhe Council, tho by popular vote, left out the following year.
Savage I
Major Samuel Appleton and the Forces Under Him
Samuel Appleton, the father of Major Samuel Appleton, was descended from the ancient family of Appulton of Waldingfield, Suffolk, England. He was the son of Thomas, and was born at Little Waldingfield in 1586; married Judith Everand, by whom he had six children born in England. John born 1622; Samuel born 1624, Sarah born 1629; Mary; Judith and Martha. With his family he came to New England in 1635 and settled at Ipswich, where he was admitted freeman, May 25, 1636. He was chosen deputy to the General Court, May 17th, 1637, and was prominent in the affairs if his town thereafter, and died at Rowley in June, 1670. The eldest son John became an influential man in the colony. Was successively lieutenant, captain, and major, and deputy to the General Court for fifteen years between 1656 and 1678, and was honorably prominent in opposition to the Andros government. He married Priscilla Glover, by whom he had a large family, and died in 1699. Of the daughters above mentioned, Judith married Samuel Rogers, son of Rev. Nathaniel, of Ipswich. Martha married Richard Jacob, of Ipswich. Sarah married Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Rowley, 1651.
Major Samuel Appleton was born at Waldingfield and came with his father to Ipswich at the age of eleven years. His first wife was Hannah Paine, of Ipswich, by whom he had Hannah, Judith and Samuel. By his second wife, Mary Oliver (at marriage, Dec. 8, 1656, aged sixteen), he had John, Major Isaac, Oliver anf Joanna. He was chosen deputy to the General Court in 1668, under the title Lieut.; also in 1669 to 1671, in company with his brother Capt. John, and again by himself in 1673 and 1675.
In early September Captain Appleton was given command of a foot company totaling 100 men. He marched to Hadley, Mass. arriving around September 6th.On October 5, 1675 the Indians attacked Springfield destroying about 30 houses and other property including Major Pynchon's, the army commander, mills and several of his houses and barns. After the destruction of his property and not feeling that he could properly maintain command, Major Pynchon asked to resign his post. This request was granted and on October 12th and Captain Appleton assumed command of all the forces in the Connecticut River area. He held this command until he was ordered home with his men on November 24. When the troops mustered on Dedham Plain on December 9, 1675 for the start of the Naragansett campaign, Major Samuel Appleton was given command of the Massachusetts regiment while also commanding the First Foot Troop.
Soon after the battle of Narragansett Major Appleton retired from his protracted and arduous service from the field. On the 19th of October, 1676, the Court appointed him to command an expedition to Pascataqua; but he probably declined, as the order was rescinded on October 23rd. He was reelected deputy in 1676, and subsequently, except 1678, until 1681, when he was chosen Assistant, and remained in that office till the coming in of the Andros government in 1686. He was proscribed by Sir Edmund's officer, Randolph, as one of the "factious." He was arrested on the general complaint of being "evil disposed and seditious," October 19th 1687, and refusing to submit and give bonds for his good behavior, was committed to Boston jail, where he kept many months till his age and increasing infirmities forced a reluctant submission, and he was set at liberty, March 7, 1688. In a new charter of William and Mary, in 1691, he was made one of the Council. He died May 15, 1696.
SAMUEL APPLETON (1586-1670)
Samuel Appleton, the immigrant ancestor of the Appleton line in this country, was born at Holbrook Hall, the family estate at Little Waldingfield, Suffolk County, England in 1586. He was the son of Thomas Appleton of Little Waldingfield and Mary Issack, second daughter of Edward Issack of Patricksbourne, County Kent. Based on Parish Register baptisims of Thomas and Mary Issack Appleton's children at the Church in Little Waldingfield, commencing in 1574 and ending with Samuel's baptism on 13 August 1586, it can be assumed Samuel was the youngest of seven children, three daughters and four sons.
He married Judith (some accounts use Mary) Everard, the daughter of John and Judith Bourne Everard of Preston, Suffolk County, in Preston on January 24, 1614. There apparently were six children of this marriage - Mary (1616), Judith (1618), Martha (1620), John (1622), Samuel (1625) and Sarah (1629). All of these children but Sarah, who was born in Reydon, County Suffolk, were born in Little Waldingfield. Daughter Judith died in Reydon in 1629, but the five other children accompanied their father to "the colonies". It seems Judith Everard Appleton predeceased the relocation of the family to Massachusetts with a probable death in 1633. Samuel married a second time to Martha in 1634 and had a second daughter named Judith that same year.
In 1635 he came to Massachusetts from England with wife and children and as early as July of 1636 was a resident of Ipswich. On 26 May 1636 he took the freeman's oath and with three others out of sixty-two then admitted, had the honorary prefix of Mr., which then was used to designate a graduate of a University or a "gentleman by birth". It appears his emigration resulted from his status as a "younger son" in addition to being prompted, as a Puritan, by religious motives. In addition it seems he was a close acquaintance and neighbor in County Suffolk of John Winthrop prior to his elevation to the role of Governor of the Massachsetts Bay Colony.
Appleton was given land grants in 1638 of two Ipswich tracts, one in town, an eight acre "building lot"on the Topsfield Road running down to the river and the other, four hundred and sixty acres called the farms lying on the line of the town of Hamilton, bounded on one side by the Ipswich River and on the other by Mile Brook. The Farms continue to this day to be operated by his family.
He was a Deputy, both in Ipswich and in Boston, at the General Court in 1637. It appears he was not reappointed to the court in November of that year due to a differences in belief as to appropriate ways to resolve religious differences.
While the marriage and death of daughter Mary is unknown, daughter Martha married Richard Jacobs in 1638 and died in Ipswich in 1659. Daughter Sarah married Samuel Phillips in 1651 and died in Rowley 1714; while youngest daughter Judith in 1657 married Samuel Rogers, the son of Reverend Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich, and died there two years later. The eldest son, John, married Priscilla Glover, daughter of Reverend Jospeh Glover who brought the first printing press to this country, in 1651 and died in Ipswich in 1699. The younger son, Samuel, married three times, Hannah Paine in 1651, Mary Oliver in 1656 and Elizabeth Whittingham and died in Ipswich in 1696.
Although Samuel Appleton was "of Ipswich" he
died while living with his daughter Sarah Phillips in Rowley in June of 1670 and is
buried there.
Famous Families of Massachusetts, Mary Caroline Crawford, Little, Brown, & Company, Boston (1930) Vol. 2, p. 167.
History of New Ipswich, Gould and Lincoln, Boston (1852) p. 295
The Last Farm in Ipswich, Richard Matthews, The Country Journal, (December 1988) p.28